Easily Harvest Nopales Cactus 🌵 Paddles

Nopales cactus paddles are easy to grow, easy to harvest, and delicious to eat!

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[lawdiawilson]

I wash them blend it with aloe vera ginger and lime juice

[adrianzuniga]

Lovely thks enjoy freedom eating health

[richardmang]

Please do a video on how you pickle the nopales.

[xrtk]

I would love to visit this place, it's very interesting. thanks for share video. it's so cute, i think it's useful for health

[jorgergonzalezvisualartist]

Looks like piece of folded cardboard might work for those of us that don’t have access to the banana stalk.

[erikalee]

Thanks for the tip of the banana tree thingy! I spent all day taking the thorns out with a knife 🤦🏻‍♀️ Never again!

[TutuSainz]

Aloha everyone this is so silly that I didn’t offer any other suggestions besides a banana stalk! 🤣 what a newbie I was

Also you can use silicon oven mitts, I tried them out they work very well and it goes really quickly and easily and the thorns didn’t go through it.

Another thing is you can cut the paddle off and then rub the it back-and-forth on some grass or some organic mulch or weeds and that rubs the thorns off too.

Please feel free to add any other suggestions if you have tried some thing that works

thank you all have a great day!

[MsYouhanna]

Wow, wish to have some of those pads for medicinal porposes.

[carmelitagood]

Thank you for that information. I never knew that it was that easy to prepare nopales for eating.

[richardmang]

Thanks for showing that all of the nubs do not have to be cut off. Only the hardened spines need to be removed, which can be done with a banana stock! :) Shazam!

[drvick]

Wow! Nice hair! Is that from eating the cactus? My wife has Nopales cacti & said it's good to help control my blood glucose levels.

[lucyfoster]

What’s a good synthetic substitute for a banana leaf? Like I tried to pick one of these up from my local farmers market and didn’t see anything handy except the usual plastic bags.

[Trunker]

Hrm. It's too bad that I am unsure of any equivelent to the banana leaf here. I mean we have Palm trees here but I am not entirely convinced that any part has a direct equivalent.

[allisondavid]

My cactus looks like that. But are any that look like that not safe to eat? s

[roxannejones]

Banana stalk? Like most people have access to that, right? Uh, wrong.